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Smoky | 🇺🇸 | ve/vem pro choice! lgbtq+ people welcome here!!! Terfs, transmeds, aphobes and the like will be blocked! (also... hetalia/snk/hp fans wyd. this goes for you too) [галоўны: @smokycinnamonroll] Зараз вывучаю: Russian, беларуская, मरठी, українская Desktop users: No i don't know what to do about the images, sorry.

[ev-n-learning]

hey tumblr followers of mine and/ or tag searchers

do you (!) know/ understand belarusian? are you reasonably confident in your ability to navigate a computer filesystem? have you ever wonder just what the fuck an "ukagaka" even is (and how theyre made)? Most importantly, are you any good at giving feedback?

if yes to like at least one maybe 2 of these questions i have . A quest. For you, even.

... 👉👈 help me proofread my belarusian ghost guide? (No images for now)

I already know it's going to be full of grammatical errors & random russian words (it was a nano project,,) i am just not sure where exactly all those grammatical errors are. Also stray typos.

To contact me you can start a reblog chain (long) tumblr ask (ok) or a tumblr ask about discord* (off anon so i dont give my discord to like everyone)

*(or if you want to join the ukagaka dream team discord & find me there that also works)

thank you! :-)

[ev-n-learning]

Just spent 13m reading on lingq for the first time in like maybe a year (or 8 months, whichever)

Wild!

[aslwritefan]

More handspeak goodies

There are a lot of great websites, like lifeprint (run by Bill Vicars, an icon in Teaching ASL) or ASLcore (which I just discovered and omg I'm geeking out over).

But one of my favorite is handspeak. You'll probably see a lot of links or references here, and its because there are always goodies on the site. Jolanta Lapiak, the person who runs it has at least a decades worth of material (I think, don't hold me to the time estimate). There's everything from a dictionary to articles and videos on childhood language development.

Today's goodie is an article on the history of sign language writing which breaks some things down, and it also has a graphic by Adrean Clark, which I find fascinating (I don't know what year it was put out, but I'll keep hunting and label it if I can)

I love pouring over these evolutions and comparisons. We're really looking at history, in both the graphic and the site, that should be preserved for years down the line.

Maker: Adrean Clark of ASLwrite.com; Source: Handspeak

[aslwritefan]

Shout out to Mark Dienh, ASLWrite history

Today's post is about Mark Dienh, a former contributer to the facebook group and how amazing his work has been.

Mark spent a lot of time studying the ASLWrite system and then began posting in the group asking for feedback. He had a strong foundation and took feedback enthusiastically, including source videos etc.

I wish I could spend time elaborating on all of the various signs he shared and how they influenced my own practice (and others) but I'd never get this post out.

This video highlights you don't need to know Vietnamese sign language to be able to see how the signs are expressed by the orthography,

It might feel odd to think of Vietnamese sign language being written in ASLWrite, but it really highlights why calling it all SLWrite is a healthy change. Marks work is a foundational example (though of course not the only one). I'd love to move a copy of his videos over here because facebook could easily eat them and that would be a loss for the archives, but I'd like to reach out to him first. Unfortunately a lot of people have ditched facebook so its getting challenging to do.

ASLwrite | These are some of the Vietnamese SL signs written in ASLWrite, but I’m not sure if they are correct | Facebook

These are some of the Vietnamese SL signs written in ASLWrite, but I’m not sure if they are correct. If they don’t, how should they be chang

[gwendolynlerman]

Verbs and Cases

Accusative

верить в (to believe in)

извиняться за (to apologize)

напоминать (to remember)

обижаться на (to take offense)

обращаться на (to turn to)

обсуждаться (to discuss)

поддерживать (to support)

рассматривать (to consider)

Dative

восхищаться (to admire)

доверять (to trust)

жениться на (to marry)

приспосабливаться к (to adapt to)

противостоять (to resist)

радоваться (to rejoice)

учить (что-нибудь) (to teach something)

содействовать (to contribute)

соответствовать (to correspond to)

удаваться (to suceed)

удивляться (to be surprised)

Genitive

бояться (to fear)

видеть (to see)

заметить (to notice)

ждать (to wait)

желать (to desire)

касаться (to touch)

кричать на (to shout)

лишаться (to stay)

ожидать (to expect)

оказаться от (to turn out to be)

отличаться от (to differ from)

придерживаться (to adhere to)

сердиться на (to be angry with)

состоять из (to consist of)

спросить у (to ask)

требовать (to demand)

Instrumental

извиняться перед (to apologize in front of)

любоваться (to admire)

мириться (to reconcile)

напоминать (to remind)

наслаждаться (to enjoy)

настаивать на (to insist on)

присмотреть за (to watch over)

руководить (to lead)

смеяться на (to laugh)

ухаживать за (to take care of)

Prepositional

заботиться о (to care for)

разбираться в (to understand)

разочаровываться в (to be charmed by)

содействовать в (to contribute to)

сомневаться в (to doubt)

сосредоточиться на (to concentrate on)

упрекать (to reproach)

[kanuorde]

I just created this chart of the various forms of the Marathi copula, असणे (asṇē, “to be”), in Puneri (or “standard”) Marathi. Note that this only includes the forms of असणे, not होणे (hōṇē, “to become”), which can be similar. Here, 1st, 2nd and 3rd represent persons. The second and third person plural forms are also their respectful forms (both singular and plural).

[aslwritefan]

An Experiment with the word MEAN (as in TO MEAN/MEANING)

Last month I shared the link to this experiment, which I posted on Cara first.

As part of my preservation efforts, I would like things to reside on more than one server, not just have links shared on more than one server. So, even though you might have seen the previous post, here it is again.

(I copied and pasted from Cara, which I think compresses it a bit to protect artists, so its not the highest quality. I don't want to struggle to figure out how to upload it here.

Here was my commentary:

This piece explores how to write the ASL sign "MEAN" (as in "to mean" or "meaning" using the ASLWrite script. One experiment is in a pink box with a blue lining and one is in a yellow circle with a green lining. They share all of the same components except one extra edge line. The upright B hand shows the left hand in the word MEAN, the upright edgeline shows that the B hand sits on the edge of its palm. The sideways V hand shows the right hand in the word mean, the thumb angle indicates the hand faces away from the signer. The circle at the base of the V indicates the wrist twists. The ASLWrite version in pink, on the left, only has a vertical edgeline for the B hand. The ASLWrite version in yellow on the right has an additional edgeline underneath the V hand that would indicate the V sites on the edge of the hand with the thumb. The fundamental question is, do we need the second edgeline (I feel confident we need the first). Can we read this sign correctly without the second edgeline so it isn't confused with another sign, given that the goal is a script that can be written with ease, with the idea of picking up the pencil as few times as possible. I feel like for full legibility the answer is yes to the second edgeline, but those who have more experience might feel no, its self-explanatory. This graphic ponders this question. Take proposed signs with potential and a grain of salt. People are welcome to take this graphic into the slwrite.org group and ask the group for its thoughts, or to reproduce the signs and take those reproductions into the group.

[aslwritefan]

Look 👏 What 👏 I 👏Found

Now to be fair, I haven't actually downloaded it, I need to make an account, so I can't verify its useful. But I found it, so here it is!

How to Write in ASL: An Introduction to the ASLwrite System

ASLwrite is a public domain system developed by Adrean Clark (www.aslwrite.com) to record ASL signs in writing based on their parameters (ha

[kanuorde]

In Marathi, both दिवस (divas) and दिन (din) mean “day,” but दिवस is the everyday word, and दिन is mostly used for public holidays like Independence Day. This is pretty much the opposite in Hindi and Nepali, in which दिन is the everyday word, and दिवस (divas/diwas) is used for public holidays. I suppose it’s the same case in Bengali for দিন (din) and দিবস (dibôs) and in many other Indo-Aryan languages. In Konkani, Gujarati and Sinhala, both purposes seem to be fulfilled by दीस/ದೀಸ್ (dīs), દિવસ (divas) and දිනය (dinaya), respectively.

[ev-n-learning]

So IMPORTANT NEWS i CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED

Rhvoice has belarusian voices now!!!

I've wanted a usable belarusian tts voice for so long... and somehow i missed when they became available!

Excited~!!!

[aslwritefan]

What's coming up on this blog

Right now I'm working on a couple of drafts (two of them are queued, but that' because they're done well enough that if I don't get them polished by march or april they might as well be dropped then).

One is on the word year, one is on the word hope, and one is on the book of ruth (all ASLWrite related).

One of those drafts I'm excited about is this one giving screenshots of what to expect in the slwrite.org group (redacted of member information).

(The math isn't mathing so that final draft is just a dead draft that I keep as a to do list for myself)

Its going to take me while, as you can see by the fact that I started the draft on January 12 and its January 23rd right now.

In the meantime, I have some other useful, and much-quicker-to-put-together things I plan to drop while I hack away at these drafts. The reason I mention it (because how would you know I was working on any of these to even miss it) is because I think this one in the graphic is important enough to come before everything else; so since I'm slow I wanted y'inz to know, even if you see other posts, I haven't forgotten about my answer to a question about this and my promise to show what's behind the curtain.

[aslwritefan]

Did I mention I finally put a video up on my Youtube? (Did I mention I got a youtube at all)?

So, anyway, I got a youtube and put exactly one video up. It has the "Happy New Years" thingy I did --and remember i'm probably changing the word "new" so be wary of how I wrote it--but mostly explanation of what I'm about. It has no voice over (sorry, not a possibility right now), but it is typed. I'd like to get a voice over on it for people who are visually impaired but I'm not going to use ai on youtube ever so I have to find a different route.

Anyway, here it is. Enjoy.

ASLWrite Fan

I like ASLWrite and SLWrite. I'm trying to learn, experiment, grow, and develop my skill, while sharing that journey and different education

[aslwritefan]

Links to basic SLWrite/ASLWrite learning materials

If you go to slwrite.org and join (free), it has a section for documents where you can find the most updated stuff (though some of the older stuff might not have made the migration; and I haven't downloaded any of those documents at this point. These are all my saves from the "before time" of fb malfeasance). My Chirp also has these links, and has links to the original facebook group that also has some educational materials (though most of them got nuked incorrectly; thanks facebook).

i've linked below what I can find (the most recent is 2025, so its not too far behind). Its all hosted on MeWe, so I need to find a back up that isn't google (I don't trust google not to eat stuff, anymore than I trust facebook not to eat stuff).

Regardless of whether a back up is google or not I'll update if I create alternatives For now, here are some of those documents

2025 ASLWrite Summary Sheet (Updated by Adrean Clark) pdf download post - wont auto download, but you may need to a MeWe, not sure)

2023 ASLWrite Extended Digibet pdf download post - wont auto download, but you may need to a MeWe, not sure)

2019 ASLWrite Numbers pdf download post - wont auto download, but you may need to a MeWe, not sure)

ASLWrite old Fingerspelling w/ 2025 update pdf download post - wont auto download, but you may need to a MeWe, not sure)

[aslwritefan]

Its a new year, lets ring in some ASLWrite/SLWrite

I don't have much to say except I'm excited to see how this year pans out.

(There's an image description that is long and I worked really hard on, if you want to look)

[polyglotten]

we all have those languages we love but it’s just not the right time not to mention we have commitment issues and every once in a while you come across something that reminds you how much you love it and you get really sad. worst kinda heartbreak tbh

[survivetoread]

Marathi-language Punk Rock Band Alert!!

So a long time ago, I was lamenting the lack of punk/rock/goth music in Marathi right here on this very blog.

I took a spin around Bandcamp tonight though, and found a punk rock band that sings Marathi lyrics. They're called Shakti.

The twist?

THEY'RE BASED IN BARCELONA.

They released their first album this October, so I want to help promote a Marathi-language band!

Later, when I have time, I'm going to try and get in touch with the band to interview them on their use of Marathi (and maybe get them to publish the lyrics too!).

[ev-n-learning]

I am #always messing up чайка & чайник. Doesn't even matter that i know чайка is a bird now